[Bug 291408] Re: Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hidp HID_QUIRK_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way!

2008-12-05 Thread bitinerant
This problem has frustrated me ever since I upgraded to Intrepid. I have the same model of Mighty Mouse; here is the applicable line from `cat /proc/bus/input/devices`: I: Bus=0005 Vendor=05ac Product=030c Version=0200 I don't think I'm up to compiling a new kernel. I have tried many variations

[Bug 222597] Re: [Hardy] skipping sound in vlc

2008-12-01 Thread bitinerant
In my tests (two or three files for each file type), .mp3 and .avi still skip, while .ogg and .wma do not skip. Strange. VLC media player 0.9.4 Grishenko on Ubuntu 8.10 (32bit version). -- [Hardy] skipping sound in vlc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222597 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 222597] Re: [Hardy] skipping sound in vlc

2008-12-03 Thread bitinerant
My `sudo lspci -vvnn` is also attached (system where .mp3 and .avi still skip). I'll try to do the other testing soon. ** Attachment added: "222597_lspci-vvnn.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20174221/222597_lspci-vvnn.txt -- [Hardy] skipping sound in vlc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22

[Bug 240738] Re: syndaemon sometimes fails to disable the touchpad

2008-11-22 Thread bitinerant
This problem has not been fixed in Intrepid. -- syndaemon sometimes fails to disable the touchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240738 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubunt

[Bug 289686] Re: evolution contacts are lost on upgrade to [8.10] RC

2008-11-24 Thread bitinerant
I also have missing contacts after upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Evolution 2.24.1-0ubuntu2). However, for me not all of the contacts are missing. My primary contacts folder displays 46 contacts, but "strings ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db |grep '^BEGIN:VCARD' |wc -l" d

[Bug 291881] Re: Search folders have the wrong Unread count

2009-05-12 Thread bitinerant
I had to delete and then re-create my search folder after the upgrade to Jaunty to get this to work ('Refresh' did not help), but now it seems fine. -- Search folders have the wrong Unread count https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291881 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 291408] Re: Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hid APPLE_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way!

2009-04-27 Thread bitinerant
> The problem is still here in the Ubuntu Jaunty Final Release Ditto! -- Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hid APPLE_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 215074] Re: macbook battery info not readable, appears empty

2008-11-04 Thread bitinerant
Perhaps this problem has something to do with the battery calibration. I experience this problem in Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04. A while back, I read something about Apple's recommendation to occasionally allow the MacBook battery to completely discharge and then recharge in order to recalibrate.

[Bug 203574] Re: "Eject" should eject the CD-ROM drive tray

2009-01-02 Thread bitinerant
Confirmed on Ubuntu 8.10 with updates. This is a particularly problematic problem on CD drives without a manual eject button (e.g. MacBook) after inserting an unreadable CD. Until I discovered this bug report, I did not know how to eject my CD without rebooting. gnome-mount --text --eject --de

[Bug 215074] Re: macbook battery info not readable, appears empty

2009-01-14 Thread bitinerant
This seems to be the same problem described on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=502674 It says it is solved by resetting the SMC to factory defaults (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411?viewlocale=en_US). However, this seems like a work-around rather than a solution. -- macbook battery i

[Bug 319097] [NEW] polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-19 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xscreensaver-gl I returned to my laptop after several minutes and the Polytopes screensaver was moving normally. I did not press shift or any other key to clear the screensaver. Instead, I began typing my password. At about the first letter of the pass

[Bug 319097] Re: polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-19 Thread bitinerant
I also had a very similar problem with the Lockward screensaver in early Nov-2008. Lockward is also part of the package xscreensaver-gl. At that time I was running Ubuntu 8.04. -- polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319097 You received this bug no

[Bug 319097] Re: polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-20 Thread bitinerant
** Attachment added: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21475274/xorg.conf -- polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 319097] Re: polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-20 Thread bitinerant
** Attachment added: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21475305/Xorg.0.log -- polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 319097] Re: polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-20 Thread bitinerant
** Attachment added: "sudo lspci -vvnn" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21475336/lspci -- polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ub

[Bug 215074] Re: macbook battery info not readable, appears empty

2008-12-11 Thread bitinerant
I should say that a couple of weeks after I wrote the above description, the problem did re-occur, and at that point I had upgraded to 8.10. This time I discharged from 100% to 75% in OS X; we'll see how long that 'fixes' it. -- macbook battery info not readable, appears empty https://bugs.launch

[Bug 319097] Re: [intel] polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-02-08 Thread bitinerant
I attempted to get a backtrace, but I'm not sure it worked. After attaching gdb to the frozen polytopes process, gdb froze (ctrl-c did not work) until I killed the polytopes process from another terminal window. At that point gdb gave some error messages. It did then allow me to dump a backtrace,

[Bug 319097] Re: [intel] polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-02-09 Thread bitinerant
I tried: gdb /usr/lib/xscreensaver/polytopes 2>&1 | tee gdb-polytopes.txt and typed 'run' in gdb. It successfully brought up the Polytopes screensaver in a window. Pressing escape closed the window. However, I repeated this process about 7000 times (via a script!) and it never locked up. So

[Bug 319097] Re: [intel] polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-02-10 Thread bitinerant
My prior backtrace attempt (2009-02-08) was over the network via ssh. I tried it again today, but this time I attached gdb to the polytopes process BEFORE polytopes locked up. However, the result was nearly identical to the log I uploaded on 2009-02-08. In short, once polytopes locked up, pressi

[Bug 291408] Re: Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hid APPLE_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way!

2009-07-19 Thread bitinerant
Bertl, thank you! This bug has been bothering me for about nine months. Your provisional patch worked well for me (Ubuntu 9.04). My Mighty Mouse vendor and device IDs are listed in earlier comments from me. -- Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hid APPLE_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way! ht

[Bug 415203] [NEW] Need to add AWCC to Mobile Broadband database

2009-08-17 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: The mobile broadband provider AWCC (Afghan Wireless, http://www.afghan- wireless.com/) needs to be added to the database. I manually edited the file /usr/share/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml and addeded these lines: AWCC

[Bug 468132] Re: Evolution doesn't add words to dictionary

2010-04-30 Thread bitinerant
I am glad this has helped others, but in my case I already had the file "~/.config/enchant/en_US.dic" (size 0 perms -rw-r--r--). There is also a "en_US.exc". I added a couple of words to "en_US.dic" with vi and then restarted Evolution. Now these new words are recognized as spelled correctly (wh

[Bug 373680] Re: network-manager fails periodically , on backgound networks scan?

2009-12-11 Thread bitinerant
After installing linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic a few days ago I began experiencing periodic pauses lasting several seconds, making working in ssh very cumbersome. Doing a 'ping 192.168.1.1' at the same time as 'tail -f /var/log/syslog' makes the pauses obvious and displays 'wpa_s

[Bug 458545] Re: Cairo/Gdk shapes not visible on Intel gpu since Karmic

2009-12-11 Thread bitinerant
This fixes the problem for me as well, Intel 945GM: https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/drivers-only/+files /xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.9.1~git-0ubuntu0tormod_i386.deb -- Cairo/Gdk shapes not visible on Intel gpu since Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458545 You received this

[Bug 468132] Re: Evolution doesn't add words to dictionary

2009-11-28 Thread bitinerant
This is a regression--adding words to the Evolution custom dictionary worked fine in Ubuntu 9.04. I am experiencing this problem on Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit with the 'English' and 'English (United States)' dictionaries enabled. Three other people at http://ubuntu- ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8

[Bug 344878] Re: file name to long when creating new file (ecryptfs_lookup: lookup_one_len() returned [-36] on lower_dentry)

2010-05-31 Thread bitinerant
When I set up eCryptfs on 10.04 and tried copying my huge home directory (formerly ext3) to the new system, I was hit by 27,278 errors and it cost me days of work. (Most of these paths were too long because of a bug in other software, but many were not.) I realize we're not voting here, but I am

[Bug 359531] Re: LVM file name maximum length is shorter than in ext3

2010-05-31 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 344878 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344878 Could someone change the title of this report to mention eCryptfs rather than LVM? -- LVM file name maximum length is shorter than in ext3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359531 You received this bug notific

[Bug 566496] Re: Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-2 Hardware support Asus eee 1005P

2010-05-18 Thread bitinerant
Two-finger scrolling for the 1005HA (and probably the 1005P and others) is solved here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479361 -- Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-2 Hardware support Asus eee 1005P https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/566496 You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 578303] Re: mlocate does not work as expected on encrypted disks

2010-05-22 Thread bitinerant
As I understand it, this is intentional! I agree that in theory this aught to work, but mlocate would need to be completely redesigned to address the security issue. Note that 'ecryptfs' is in the 'PRUNEFS=' line of the default /etc/updatedb.conf file. I suppose you could edit this file to 'fix'

[Bug 201786] Re: ssh Agent admitted failure to sign using the key on big endian machines

2010-02-05 Thread bitinerant
This one bit me when I deleted my old ssh keys and generated new ones on Karmic. Both work-arounds worked for me (I tried them individually)--adding the line "export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=0" to ~/.bashrc OR running "ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa". I like the latter better because it doesn't require extra work to

[Bug 502698] Re: 'urlopen error' using add-apt-repository

2010-02-16 Thread bitinerant
It seems that the "" is given when the Internet connection is down. In my opinion the message is very unclear. In addition, I feel it would be better for add-apt-repository to not add the repository in the event that the corresponding key cannot be retrieved. -- 'urlopen error' using add-apt-re

[Bug 415203] Re: Need to add AWCC to Mobile Broadband database

2009-08-30 Thread bitinerant
Bump. -- Need to add AWCC to Mobile Broadband database https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415203 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/list

[Bug 438379] Re: ext4 journal error, remounted read-only after resume

2009-12-22 Thread bitinerant
Four times now I have experienced what I think is exactly the same problem ("touch: cannot touch `testfile': Read-only file system") except that it happened while the computer was on rather than after resume. Three of the four times I was away from my laptop when it happened and had to kill the scr

[Bug 414560] Re: ath9k disassociates/reassociates a lot

2009-12-23 Thread bitinerant
Thanks for the tip, but the command `iwconfig wlan1 power off` does not help on my system. I figured out how to visualize the network pauses by printing dots to the terminal in a background process while connecting to a remote system via ssh and asking it to count. See attachment for details. If

[Bug 1448778] Re: Evince fails to display some fonts (some font thing failed)

2018-10-11 Thread bitinerant
Closely related: Bug #793122 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1448778 Title: Evince fails to display some fonts (some font thing failed) To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1448778] Re: Evince fails to display some fonts (some font thing failed)

2018-10-11 Thread bitinerant
I have a number of PDF files which, when opened, display some text but not others, and show dozens of "some font thing failed" lines in the terminal. The PDFs appear fine in Firefox. I don't know what "texlive" is, so I'm quite sure I'm not using that, but I do have some fonts in ~/.fonts Thanks t

[Bug 1448778] Re: Evince fails to display some fonts (some font thing failed)

2018-10-11 Thread bitinerant
I have additional information. Within ~/.fonts I have a subfolder containing some Windows fonts. It seems that if those files are not OWNED by the user running Evince (even though they are group readable), then Evince does not display the fonts at all. I feel this is a bug. At the very least, Evin

[Bug 1448778] Re: Evince fails to display some fonts (some font thing failed)

2018-10-13 Thread bitinerant
Seth--thanks for the helpful details. I appreciate the suggestions, but none quite fit my use case. It's really 2 users wanting to share the fonts--one owns them and the other has a symlink. If I put them in /usr/local/share/fonts/ then they don't get backed up and can't be modified. I think the s

[Bug 1774188] Re: Unlocking the screen takes 5 seconds in Xorg sessions (not so much in Wayland sessions)

2018-11-01 Thread bitinerant
I occasionally see this on two separate 18.04 installations using Xorg sessions. The time to unlock varies from a couple of seconds to several minutes. Everything other than unlocking the screen feels to work at a normal speed. I can reliably reproduce this issue (cause screen unlocking to take

[Bug 1767817] Re: Full text search does not work

2018-09-28 Thread bitinerant
Related: Bug #1702878 - Cant add folders to Search in Gnome Control Center -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767817 Title: Full text search does not work To manage notifications about

[Bug 1769068] Re: hamster-applet package missing in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

2018-05-17 Thread bitinerant
See https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues/356 ** Bug watch added: github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues #356 https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues/356 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 1772201] [NEW] resizing nautilus icons in grid view also resizes desktop icons

2018-05-19 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: Steps to reproduce: * open a Nautilus window * minimize other windows so you can see some desktop icons next to the Nautilus window * click on the Nautilus window to give it focus * press ctrl-2 to switch to grid view * press ctrl-+ a few times to make the icons la

[Bug 1560286] Re: Evince displays pdf file fine, but prints colors inverted

2019-01-04 Thread bitinerant
And here is the 1-page PDF used in the above screenshot. ** Attachment added: "sample 'bad' PDF" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1560286/+attachment/5226857/+files/978-1-57896-287-7%20LL4%20SW%20Sem%201%20Reduced%20p.17.pdf -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1560286] Re: Evince displays pdf file fine, but prints colors inverted

2019-01-04 Thread bitinerant
Same issue here, Ubuntu 18.04. We're having a hard time finding a way to print these documents. I am attaching a screenshot. ** Attachment added: "Evince (left) and Print Preview (right)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1560286/+attachment/5226856/+files/Evince%20%28left

[Bug 1913365] [NEW] "Adjust pitch" changes adjustment between songs

2021-01-26 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: Under Tools > Effects and Filters > Advances, when "Adjust pitch" is enabled, it works properly for the duration of the current song. After that, the audible pitch changes (though the displayed number of semitones remains the same). For example, if set to "2.0 semitones" and V

[Bug 1876518] Re: Gtk.Clipboard set_text() not working

2020-05-16 Thread bitinerant
This has been reported upstream: (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject/-/issues/405 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1876518 Title: Gtk.Clipboard set_text() not working To manage n

[Bug 1577800] Re: Frequent disconnects with Intel 8260 wireless NIC

2016-12-24 Thread bitinerant
I updated to kernel 4.8 by installing 'linux-generic-hwe-16.04'. Now ethtool reports firmware 22, so I think my problems are solved, but this doesn't help people on the LTS kernel 4.4. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. h

[Bug 1667853] Re: Extra indicator item (text) appears next to graphs

2017-06-23 Thread bitinerant
I propose that the scroll behavior that changes or removes the text to the right of the graphs (comment #3) is a bug. I'm been trying to get rid of this "extra text" for a couple of days now and it took me locating this bug report to find the fix. -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 1691729] Re: linux-firmware-raspi2 conflicts with linux-firmware over brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin

2017-10-09 Thread bitinerant
I had this very same issue when upgrading a Pi 2 image of Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 to Pi 3. The directions are here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi#line-105 The work-around in comment #4 worked well and is very much appreciated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 1265421] Re: Ubuntu login screen never blanks; no screensaver

2014-01-02 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1245474 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245474 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1245474 saucy regression: on login screen, monitor stays on forever -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1268838] Re: Unable to mount audio disc - Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

2014-03-29 Thread bitinerant
Same issue here--but only with one particular audio CD. DVDs and other audio CDs work fine. I have Ubuntu 12.04 kernel 3.5.0-47-generic. The same CD causes the same problem on another laptop with a different CD drive (same Ubuntu kernel). Syslog has this line for each time I insert the CD: Mar

[Bug 1268838] Re: Unable to mount audio disc - Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

2014-03-31 Thread bitinerant
Update: the troublesome audio CD was not accepted by an old MacBook (OS X 10.6.8) but WORKED FINE in another MacBook (also 10.6.8). I also found a second audio CD with the same issue, which also worked in the second MacBook. Could the CDs have bad checksums which the drive firmware or kernel on t

[Bug 1577800] Re: Frequent disconnects with Intel 8260 wireless NIC

2016-11-14 Thread bitinerant
Would someone be so gracious as to detail the workaround for this bug until it is fixed? I disabled secure boot and tried to build Core18 using instructions from the wireless.wiki.kernel.org page but I still have firmware 16.242414.0 and my WiFi continues to disconnect. Here is a summary of the s

[Bug 1652243] Re: Times for other locations shows up as AM & PM not "24-hour time"

2017-03-03 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1319195 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1319195 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1319195 indicator-datetime set for 24 hours does not show 24 hour clock for "Other Locations" -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 1319195] Re: indicator-datetime set for 24 hours does not show 24 hour clock for "Other Locations"

2017-03-03 Thread bitinerant
This is still an issue in 16.04. In addition to the duplicate bugs, see http://askubuntu.com/questions/493725 Is there a work-around for this until it gets fixed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 1285444] Re: Login Successful, Desktop Never Loads

2016-10-31 Thread bitinerant
This may help someone. I fixed a consistent login loop by moving 52 .tif files (127MB) from the desktop into a subfolder. The desktop still has 30 .gif and .jpg files but seems okay. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. ht

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2016-04-14 Thread bitinerant
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems like a huge deal and still an issue in LibreOffice (4.2.8.2 on Ubuntu 14.04). I have tried variations of this procedure many times, always with the same result. The two texts differ in a few minor places. To reproduce: * open Writer * copy text 1 f

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2016-04-14 Thread bitinerant
Here is the help documentation which describes this process: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Comparing_Versions_of_a_Document -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782406 Titl

[Bug 1573907] [NEW] missing "Close multiple terminals?" warning when current terminal is zoomed

2016-04-22 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: I really appreciate the "Close multiple terminals?" alert when I accidentally close Terminator with multiple terminals open. However, when I need it most--when one of the terminals is zoomed (making the others invisible)--it fails to display. To reproduce: * open Terminat

[Bug 1224732] Re: Custom keyboard shortcuts don't work

2015-06-08 Thread bitinerant
This problem has been bugging me for a very long time--custom and media keyboard shortcuts occasionally not working; logging out and back in usually fixes it. Comment #63 fixed it for me immediately (did not have to log out). :-) To be clear, I ran CompizConfig (search for ccsm) and, under the "G

[Bug 1430757] [NEW] iptables-extensions man page misleading for --to

2015-03-11 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: The man page for iptables-extensions for the "--to'' option (string module) implies that the length of the string to match must be included in the byte range. The example from the man page to block DNS queries for www.netfilter.org is even more misleading because it unnecessar

[Bug 1211110] Re: network manager openvpn dns push data not updating system DNS addresses

2015-03-13 Thread bitinerant
Whether this is a bug or feature request, I don't know, but to be sure, it is possible to do this with a .conf file and "sudo service openvpn start" and not possible to do it via network-manager-openvpn (unless you count disabling dnsmasq--I'm curious what side effects this has). As described in t

[Bug 803348] Re: In Firefox, scrolling and then pressing Ctrl causes zoom

2015-03-14 Thread bitinerant
This issue is not limited to Firefox or even the control key. When scrolling and then coasting in one application and then using alt-tab to switch to another application, often the coasting continues. For example, begin scrolling a long web page in Firefox and let it coast. While it is still coa

[Bug 1211110] Re: network manager openvpn dns push data not updating system DNS addresses

2015-03-17 Thread bitinerant
Actually, I'd like to retract part of what I said above. Via tcpdump, I was able to confirm that --push on the server for "dhcp-option DNS ..." and "redirect-gateway" ARE ACTUALLY WORKING, though the changes are not visible in /etc/resolv.conf. Rather, they are updated in dnsmasq and resolv.conf p

[Bug 1283663] Re: when using openvpn the vpn's dns is never used (DNSLEAK)

2015-03-18 Thread bitinerant
@mubtcez: to use the OpenVPN server's pushed DNS servers, add this to your .conf file: script-security 2 up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf If you want to use your own DNS servers, add the above plus a line for each DNS server: dhcp-option DN

[Bug 1224732] Re: Custom keyboard shortcuts don't work

2015-06-16 Thread bitinerant
@Matthias (comment #67): I have Gnome Compatibility turned off in ccms and still my keyboard shortcuts die occasionally. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1224732 Title: Custom keyboard

[Bug 1224732] Re: Custom keyboard shortcuts don't work

2015-06-16 Thread bitinerant
Update to comment #66: Turning ccsm Commands off (comment #63) was not a permanent fix for me. All my shortcuts died again today. Turning Commands on and then back off restored my shortcuts for now (no log-out required), although last time I did this on two separate machines, they both crashed w

[Bug 880962] Re: dnd pointer lock when dragging tab between two gedit instances

2012-05-11 Thread bitinerant
I think this is the same bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808789 The comments mention it could be related to a mismatched DISPLAY environment variable. Also: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers/98401 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #808789

[Bug 804109] Re: can't enable touchpad in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-05-14 Thread bitinerant
This bug effects me with 12.04 fresh install on a ThinkPad T420s. Comment #46 works around the issue nicely (Fn-F8 toggles touchpad on and off properly) until the next reboot: sudo xinput set-int-prop 11 "Synaptics Off" 8 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 774365] Re: Certain update packets not being sent

2012-05-03 Thread bitinerant
@fluffy: There are three similar bugs which seem related to the issue you are seeing . Could yours be a duplicate of one of these? bug #915906 bug #918815 bug #772873 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 774365] Re: Certain update packets not being sent

2012-05-03 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 918815 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918815 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 918815 Vino doesn't work with compositing using Intel driver -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 774365] Re: Certain update packets not being sent

2012-05-03 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 918815 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918815 @fluffy: Thanks for the input. Based on your comments, I have marked this as a duplicate of bug #918815 (the Intel one). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 674841] Re: os-prober 1.40 doesn't detect another ubuntu installation anymore

2012-05-04 Thread bitinerant
I, too, have "lost" my other Ubuntu partition. I installed 12.04 on sda1 using Btrfs; it booted fine. Then I installed another 12.04 on sda2 (/boot) and sda3 (swap) and sda4 (/), and it boots fine, but now I can't boot from sda1. Mounting and then unmounting sda1 as suggested in comment #2 does

[Bug 674841] Re: os-prober 1.40 doesn't detect another ubuntu installation anymore

2012-05-04 Thread bitinerant
Comment #2 of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1969614 says that renaming the grub.cfg on the _hidden partition_ allows update-grub to work, but this did not help in my situation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1272374] Re: XPenguins runs, but no penguins arrive

2016-01-15 Thread bitinerant
I can confirm this--Ubuntu 14.04.3 with default Unity desktop. No penguins. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1272374 Title: XPenguins runs, but no penguins arrive To manage notificati

[Bug 1278437] Re: can't move link type .desktop files around on desktop

2014-06-04 Thread bitinerant
This bug makes saving URLs to the desktop unusable (e.g. from Firefox). In addition, Nautilus crashes if moving multiple files at once if the .desktop file contains certain types of URLs. Steps to reproduce crash: * save this as test.desktop on the Ubuntu desktop: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-

[Bug 1310864] Re: Desktop URL shortcuts, added from Firefox, are not movable

2014-06-07 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1278437 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278437 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1278437 can't move link type .desktop files around on desktop -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 1278437] Re: can't move link type .desktop files around on desktop

2014-06-23 Thread bitinerant
Still not working for me, same nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1. Felix, try the steps in post #4. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278437 Title: can't move link type .desktop files around

[Bug 803348] Re: In Firefox, scrolling and then pressing Ctrl causes zoom

2014-04-16 Thread bitinerant
As dimovnike wrote, this happens on simple pages too--as long as they are at least several screens long. Two-finger scrolling has momentum, or "coasts" a while after removing your fingers from the touchpad if they are in motion. I love this feature and think it works well. The problem is that th

[Bug 1245474] Re: [regression] on login screen, monitor stays on forever

2014-01-23 Thread bitinerant
I also can confirm this works. Thank you, Eugene! It took me an embarrassing number of tries to get this right, so for others wanting to implement this work-around: printf '\n[SeatDefaults]\ndisplay-setup-script=/usr/bin/bug1245474-work-around.sh\n' |sudo tee /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-d

[Bug 1109890] [NEW] Unicode 25D2 "Circle With Lower Half Black" and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-01-29 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: The Unicode character 25D2 "CIRCLE WITH LOWER HALF BLACK" and 25D3 "CIRCLE WITH UPPER HALF BLACK" are swapped in most fonts, including major ones such as Arial, Times New Roman, and the Ubuntu fonts. The only fonts I could find which have it _correct_ are TakaoPGothic, Lucida

[Bug 1109890] Re: Unicode 25D2 "Circle With Lower Half Black" and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-01-29 Thread bitinerant
Font substitution obviously plays a big role here, and different applications have different rules for this. For example, OpenSymbol and Courier New both display incorrectly in Firefox but correctly in LibreOffice. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 1109890] Re: Unicode 25D2 "Circle With Lower Half Black" and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-01-30 Thread bitinerant
Affected packages include ttf-ubuntu-font-family and ttf-mscorefonts- installer. The packages xfonts-base and xfonts-scalable and others may also be affected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 1109890] Re: Unicode 25D2 "Circle With Lower Half Black" and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-02-05 Thread bitinerant
I can post a screenshot but I think it would be much more useful if it did not include the fonts which do not define U+25D2. Is there a way to search all fonts to see which ones define that character? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 1109890] Re: Unicode 25D2 "Circle With Lower Half Black" and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-02-05 Thread bitinerant
Thanks for the instructions. In the Ubuntu font, U+25D3 maps from DejaVu Sans. Same for Arial, Garamond, Lucida Sans, Microsoft Sans Serif, Ubuntu Mono, Ubuntu Condensed, and dozens of others I tested. Serif and Times New Roman map U+25D3 from DejaVu Serif. Most monospace fonts map from DejaVu M

[Bug 1036029] Re: All menus are empty when using Unity Global Menus

2013-02-08 Thread bitinerant
Hackel, does the attached screen shot show the issue are describing? Only a small gray box drops down where the menu should be. Tapping alt and typing does not work properly either, so all menu commands are inaccessible. I've seen this in Firefox and Nautilus on two different 12.04 installs. The

[Bug 1030491] Re: Xorg segfault

2012-08-03 Thread bitinerant
You may want to read through bug #1026777 and/or bug #956071 to see if you think this is a duplicate of one of those. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030491 Title: Xorg segfault To m

[Bug 994309] Re: wine is uninstallable

2012-09-04 Thread bitinerant
Just for the record, a while back I did: sudo aptitude install wine --without-recommends It installed fine and has been working ever since. I don't remember if Mono was installed at the time, but there may be an unintended interaction between Wine and Mono. Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. -- You rec

[Bug 994309] Re: wine is uninstallable

2012-09-04 Thread bitinerant
My install was not like that at all. Aptitude did not remove any packages, and I don't believe it listed any unmet dependencies. I wish I had a terminal dump of it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 970402] Re: kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-3.2.0/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2287!

2012-08-07 Thread bitinerant
In case it still matters to someone, I got this same error on an external USB 2 GB drive with the stock 12.04 kernel (3.2.0-27): kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-3.2.0/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2287! I installed kernel 3.4.7 as suggested above and it did, indeed, fix the issue. The drive mounted

[Bug 794142] Re: Printing PDFs with some greyscale images results in the images appearing as negatives

2012-08-15 Thread bitinerant
Thank you, Kuroshima, for reporting this. I have struggled with this bug on Ubuntu 10.10 and 12.04. I didn't report it myself because my problematic PDFs are copyrighted. However, I am attaching a screenshot of Evince's screen display (left) and Evince's print preview (right). This sounds like

[Bug 794142] Re: Printing PDFs with some greyscale images results in the images appearing as negatives

2012-08-15 Thread bitinerant
Screen shot of the problem attached. ** Attachment added: "screen-vs-print-preview.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/794142/+attachment/3262271/+files/screen-vs-print-preview.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 887836] Re: update-grub does not create btrfs menuentry in grub.cfg

2012-08-15 Thread bitinerant
I believe this bug explains why I can't boot from sda1. I installed a 'normal' Ubuntu 12.04 with Btrfs on sda1 and it worked fine. I let the installer create the partition table; GParted says it is 'msdos'. I then installed a crypt-luks Ubuntu 12.04 with /boot on sda2 (Ext2), encrypted swap on s

[Bug 978604] Re: Banshee/Rhythmbox regularly stop playing audio when left on in the background

2012-08-22 Thread bitinerant
This seems to be fixed in Rhythmbox too. I had enabled crossfade as a work-around, but just now I disabled crossfade, closed, re-opened Rhythmbox, and tested. The formerly-broken MP3-to-OGG transition works well, as well as all the other combinations of OGG, MP3, and WMA tried. :-) -- You recei

[Bug 978604] Re: Banshee/Rhythmbox regularly stop playing audio when left on in the background

2012-08-23 Thread bitinerant
Alistair, perhaps you are experiencing a different bug or perhaps you have a different version of Rhythmbox or a library. I don't have any FLAC files to test. My experience with this bug in the past is that it froze/paused on transitions _from_ MP3 and _not_to_ MP3. I'm running Rhythmbox version

[Bug 153768] Re: External SATA (eSATA) removable disk not auto mounted

2012-08-24 Thread bitinerant
Marcin, I, too, would love to see your udev rule. I have a LUKS-encrypted partition on a SATA drive which I can hot-plug into the slot on my laptop where the DVD drive normally goes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. htt

[Bug 1007352] Re: "toggle fullscreen mode" keyboard shortcut not honoured

2012-08-27 Thread bitinerant
I don't know how they got in the state, but two applications (Thunderbird and TortoiseHG) got very stuck in fullscreen mode (not just maximized, but 100% of my LCD). No amount of F11, maximize, moving, rebooting, etc. would unstick them. I worked around it by editing config files (.thunderbird//l

[Bug 956071] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGSEGV in XIGetDeviceProperty()

2012-08-29 Thread bitinerant
The "except for scrolling" phrase from ThomasNovin really caught my attention because, on two laptops using xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.5.99.902, I have seen the touchpad become inoperable except for scrolling. I have both configured for two-finger scrolling, and when this happens, it switches

[Bug 994309] Re: wine is uninstallable

2012-06-11 Thread bitinerant
Is there a work-around? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994309 Title: wine is uninstallable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/win

[Bug 804109] Re: can't enable touchpad in Ubuntu 11.10 (thinkpads)

2012-06-05 Thread bitinerant
Tested today--yes, it is still a problem on Precise (Unity session, ThinkPad T420s). Fix in comment #46 works until reboot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/804109 Title: can't enable

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